Stories From The European Border

Workers protesting for getting their outstanding wages, in Haryana, in December 2020. They are supported by an activist from the farmers' movement. 

On March 26, SI Cobas coordinators Carlo and Arafat were released from house arrest.

On March 10, 2021 police has carried out two massive operations against militant workers and SI Cobas unionists, in Piacenza and in Prato.

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On August 28, 2018, 30 people came to the Cghinese Embassy in Berlin to ask for the release of 14 arrested workers of Jasic factory in Shenzhen and their supporters who are still in detention.  Solidarity messages from workers of Daimler dfactory in Sindelfingen, Germany,  and VW in Hannover were read. 

Video by the Jasic Workers Support Group. In the night from 23 to 24 August 2018, 50 members of the support group have been raided and incarcerated

Rede eines Jasic Arbeiters am 27. Juli 2018 in Shenzen. 

In this video protestors outside the Jasic machinery factory in Shenzhen are demanding to be reinstated, after seven workers were fired for trying to form a union. Protests carried on throughout July, and on 27th July, 29 workers, family members and supporters were violently arrested by police and detained.

Documentary film on the living and working conditions of workers in the South of China.

In Bangladesh, 3,500 textile workers were fired for striking in December 2016.

Trailer of a documentary by Rahul Roy on the repression of workers who were organizing and protesting at the Maruti Suzuki auto plant in Manesar, Haryana province, very close to the Indian capital Dehli.

Film about the massacre in the Lonmin planine mine in Marikana, South Africa

On the 9th of November 2013, Oscar López Triviño, a Nestlé worker and unionist, was murdered in Bugalagrande (Colombia)

Cleaners occupy the Barbican in London

Since November 2012, 110 workers are on strike at the packaging company Neupack in Hamburg-Stellingen and Rotenburg (both in Germany). This film documents the first month of the strike.

A documentary about garment workers in Cambodia

Interview with Rodolfo Vecino, president of the Colombian oil union USO

December 2011 - Al-Jazeera short report on the escalating state violence against the striking oil workers

Sodexo workers in Bogotá organize a day of protest.

Democracy Now background report from February 2011

Giovanni, Antonio and Marco have been laid off by FIAT and are now on a tour to visit several FIAT plants in the south of Italy. They lost their jobs after going on strike against a rise in the pace of work, which had been unbearable even before the protest.

An urgent appeal to the international community, sent out by two secretaries of the farm worker union CSAAWU. They are furious, talking about a shop steward who is about to be dismissed: "He is a person who cannot read or write, but he is someone who has great instinct and a vision. He wants to see improvement in the living conditions of the poor and the farm workers."<br>The union, which has been active for the past three years, had made a video on the situation of the farmworkers. This video received a lot of attention and the farmers reacted with repression. - Solidarity!<br>If you want to support the workers, contact Trevor Christians at csaawu(at)gmail.com

They wanted to set up a union of temporary agency workers and were suspended.

In the last few years, the workers' situation in the retail sector has dramatically worsened. While the workload is approaching the limits of what is physically bearable, the gap between wages and living costs is constantly growing. All the while company profits constantly increase: between 2000 and 2006 they have risen by 64.3%. When at the end of 2006 employers wanted to cut late and night-time bonuses, to many employees this was the straw that broke the camel's back: the longest and toughest wage dispute in the German retail sector began.

May 2008, Berlin - Carlos Olaya speaks about what it means to be a union activist in Colombia today.

China's Computer Factory on the Global Market - Film about IT-Production in China.

Bogotá, March 29, 2006 - Gonzalo Quijano explains the current state of the trials against Coca-Cola at the court in Florida, USA. One case concerns the kidknapping of Jorge Leal in Venezuela. According to Quijano, the union received a threatening letter that said that the kidknappers would kill Jorge Leal if the union would continue mobilizing against Coca-Cola.